Re: libthread_xu ready?

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 01:01:28PM -0500, Rongsheng Fang wrote:
> 	I did a buildworld yesterday (3/21) with the latest current
> 	souce and I noticed libthread_xu was already in place. This
> 	morning I was trying to compile gtk+-2.6.4 from pkgsrc and got
> 	complaint saying "cannot find pthread". So I just made a soft
> 	link /usr/lib/libpthread.so to /usr/lib/libthread_xu.so and that
> 	kinda fixed the problem. I am sure this is not a pretty way to
> 	do it, but since CCTHREAD[1] environment variable has not been
> 	supported yet it makes me wonder what would be the best way to
> 	solve this kind of problem?

There are still some kernel parts misssing. You definitely don't
want to use it for real world programs at this time. Fix the programs
to use -pthread for linkage, that will stay the most correct switch
in the future.

Joerg